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As the Dáil returns, can the Government regroup?
The Dáil returns today, earlier than scheduled due to the Golfgate scandal. Can the fractiousness of the Government's first few months be put behind …
5 years, 6 months ago
Interview: Elif Shafak, author of How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division
Elif Shafak is an award-winning British-Turkish novelist, women’s rights advocate and political theorist. In her new book, How to Stay Sane in an Age…
5 years, 6 months ago
Phil Hogan "hangs on by his fingertips"
Will he stay or will he go? While we wait for EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen to decide Phil Hogan's fate, Naomi O'Leary joins Pat and H…
5 years, 6 months ago
The public is incensed; the Government is in danger
Pat Leahy and Jack Horgan Jones discuss the latest, and so far the worst, scandal to hit the Government: the attendance of Minister for Agriculture D…
5 years, 6 months ago
How behavioural science informs the pandemic response - with Pete Lunn
In today’s episode, Hugh talks to Pete Lunn, a behavioural economist with the Economic and Social Research Institute. Lunn is also part of the behavi…
5 years, 6 months ago
US Politics special with Michael Brendan Dougherty
Today Hugh speaks to Michael Brendan Dougherty, a senior writer with New York-based conservative magazine National Review. Dougherty is also the auth…
5 years, 6 months ago
Coronavirus: are we losing control?
Health editor Paul Cullen joins Hugh, Jennifer Bray and Jack Horgan-Jones to talk about an eventful week in Ireland's Covid-19 battle. Does the outbr…
5 years, 6 months ago
Lifting the lid on paid-for politics - with Peter Geoghegan
Hugh talks to journalist Peter Geoghegan about the murky world of political think-tanks and pressure groups that he writes about in a new book, Democ…
5 years, 6 months ago
Remembering John Hume - with Claire Hanna
SDLP MP for South Belfast Claire Hanna joins Hugh to look back on the life and legacy of John Hume, who died on Sunday.
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5 years, 6 months ago
Government stumbles toward the recess
It's been another extraordinary week for the new government and a very uncomfortable one for Micheal Martin and some of his ministers, as stumbles ov…
5 years, 7 months ago